QUIZ ON PLAYERS WHO FEATURED IN 100 TESTs

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QUIZ ON PLAYERS WHO FEATURED IN 100 TESTs

Did you know? In the third Test during New Zealand tour of South Africa in 2006, there were three players who were taking the field for the 100th Time. Stephen Fleming (NZ), Jacques Kallis (SA) and Shaun Pollock (SA)

Cheteshwar Pujara became the latest Indian player to feature in 100 Tests. But, do you know, there is one Indian player who has played exactly 99 matches. Who is that?

In Tests overall, Azharuddin is the only player so far to play exactly 99 matches. Here is an interesting anecdote. Azhar ended his career with 99 Tests, and a highest score of 199.

Zaheer Khan

GR Vishwanath

Mohammad Azharuddin

Harbhajan Singh

In 2000, Alec Stewart scored a 100 in his 100th Test against the West Indies. In that match there was another player who was featuring in his 100th Test, who was that?

In Tests, it was the first time that two players made their 100th appearance in the same Test match.

Curtly Ambrose

Courtney Walsh

Graham Thorpe

Mike Atherton

Cheteshwar Pujara was the last player to feature in 100 Tests. Who was the first to achieve this feat?

Cowdrey in 1968 against Australia became the first player to play 100 Test. Co-incidentally, he hit a century in that match.

Colin Cowdrey (ENG)

Geoff Boycott (ENG)

Sunil Gavaskar (IND)

Clive Lloyd (WI)

Justin Langer’s 100th Test match saw an uncharacteristic event, what was that?

Langer was hit on the helmet off a short ball in the first ball of the innings against South Africa in 2006. The injury forced him to back out of the entire Test match.

He was dismissed in nineties

He suffered a pair (duck in both innings)

He was run out for zero

He was retired out the first ball

In his 100th Test, Muttiah Muralitharan registered yet another record. What was that record?

Muralitharan registered his 1000th International wicket in the second innings when he dismissed Alok Kapali.

Became the highest wicket taker in Tests

Became the first bowler to 600 Test wickets

Reached 1000th international wickets

Registered the best figures for a spinner in Test

Sunil Gavaskar, in 1984 against Pakistan, became the first Indian player to play 100 Tests. In that match there was a prominent player who debuted for India. Who was that?

Chetan Sharma bowled only one innings and picked up the wickets of Mohsin Khan, Mudassar Nazar and Javed Miandad on his debut.

Ravi Shastri

Roger Binny

Chetan Sharma

Anshuman Gaekwad

Who is the only Indian player to win a Man of the Match award in his 100th Test?

Kapil Dev had scored 55 runs and bagged match figures of 7/151 against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989.

Dilip Vengsarkar

Sunil Gavaskar

Sachin Tendulkar

Kapil Dev

What connects between Gordon Greenidge and Javed Miandad in Tests?

Javed Miandad scored 163 & 25* in debut against New Zealand in 1976 and Gordon Greenidge scored 93 & 107. In their 100th, Miandad scored 145 and Greenidge scored 149.

Both hit centuries in their debut and 100th Test

Both were man of the match in their 100th Test

Both got out for a duck in their 100th Test

Both scored a double century in their 100th Test

Cheteshwar Pujara became the second Indian to score a duck in the 100th Test. Who was the other Indian to suffer this fate?

Vengsarkar against New Zealand in 1988 scored 25 in the first innings and zero in the second.

Sunil Gavaskar

Dilip Vengsarkar

GR Vishwanath

VVS Laxman

Shane Warne, Anil Kumble and Muttiah Muralitharan all had a five-wicket haul in their 100th Test. Is the above statement true or false?

Warne had 6/161 against SA in 2002, Kumble bagged 5/89 against SL in 2005 and Murali had figures of 6/54 against Bangladesh in 2006.

True

False

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